[Ghoulish Delight]

Okay, I saw that a couple days ago, and I gotta call foul on the fruit fly thing. What she said was dumb, but pulling out the "it's for autism" card is also dumb. She was referring to an earmark for research through California on the Olive Fruit Fly that is a major pest in California. It has nothing to do with autism.

What she said was dumb, anti-science, and xenophobic (I kid you not, Paris!). But the autism line is a non sequitur that is easily rebuked and highly waggish.

There is a perfectly valid response to what she said, namely that ensuring that California's olive crop isn't destroyed will ensure that we can actually continue to produce here in the US instead of having to import yet another resource from out of the country, and if THAT doesn't serve public interests I don't know what does.